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Late Night Open Thread: Life’s Little Mysteries

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Huffpo correspondent looked at the HRC endorsment Betty mentioned this morning, and wonders: Why doesn’t Hillary like us?

It’s not that I don’t like toddlers, Ms. Bendery… it’s just that I prefer not to waste my time trying to discuss serious issues with them. Neither of us will enjoy it, and it only makes you cranky.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    “Screw the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”

    is not quite what Hillary actually said. If anything, the exact verbatim quote makes me admire her all the more.

  5. 5.

    ? Martin

    It’s funny. Trump has the ‘we hate politicians’ cohort and he’s really just a giant caricature of a politician – say whatever the crowd wants and doesn’t give a shit about actually governing. Clinton is pretty much the opposite – the only thing she wants to do is govern, but she’s judged on her ability to campaign.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    and the media just won’t fucking let the e-mail thing die (and THEY KNOW that there’s nothing there) and they wonder why Hillary doesn’t open up to them and trust them after nearly 30 years of the NYT vendetta against her and her family. It’s like they’re upset that they only got to hang an illicit bj on old Bill and feel cheated. It’s not as if they couldn’t question NAFTA, Foreign policy missteps like Bosnia (if someone wanted to, at least) and I believe Mogadishu and Rwanda also happened on their watch and yet no one wants to talk about Africa or foreign policy or domestic policy… its fucking scandal mongering all the way down and playing the victim as to why in the fuck she decides to take all of that shit a wee bit personally. I know that she’s not perfect but I do believe that she’s capable of learning, unlike our fourth estate.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    Trump at a rally tonight, denying that he kicked a baby out of a rally earlier this week:

    “I don’t throw babies out, believe me,” he said. “I love my babies. I love my children. I love babies. I don’t throw babies out, believe me.”

    LMAO!

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    Trump is the kind of bullshitter who can deny anything, even after you show him video. An exceedingly rare talent, but not one you want in a POTUS.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Betty Cracker: Which statement he followed up by explaining why he threw the baby out.

    My favorite bit was his maundering about Russia – we should be friends with them, they’re okay, we should team up with them and go after the Evil Terrorists and ISIS; got applause, so apparently the crowd was okay with Trump and Vlad being BFFs.

  11. 11.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @? Martin: reminds me of Australians – in the classroom at least anecdotally the ruder and more sarcastic I am to my students, the better my course reviews and feedback look. It’s crazy. Same thing is true with our head of school – she (for many reasons) really dislikes a few of the men in our dept, comes down on them like a tonne of bricks whenever they step ever so slightly out of line, complains about them in public and private to all and sundry and THEY LOVE HER TO PIECES.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @? Martin: I thought it interesting that right after Trump did his I’m an outsider, we need to pull it all down, everything’s broken spiel, that was the moment he chose to endorse entrenched Republican politicians. The dissonance, it burns.

  13. 13.

    marilyn darst

    Checking out on the Left Coast…had to send my Miss Luci over the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon (to me), and realized how all my memories are tied to my pets….too tired tonight to make sense of the experience, and how much I love living in a tolerant State…this corner is usually bright red, but we have a few oases of blue (Ashland!)…..signing off, and missing my fat lump of purring fur…..

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    @marilyn darst:

    My condolences to you. It’s hard when you have to let them go. But think of the great life that you gave her and that she shared with you.

  17. 17.

    mdarst so oregon

    @Steeplejack: @Major Major Major Major: Yup, she was a rescue kitty that came home in my daughter’s smock pocket when she worked at a vet clinic. My daughter bottle fed her, and her Heeler cross mothered her…even ate her poop. Sweetie is greeting her at the gate as I type…I’m off in the morning for a mini high school reunion in Spfld, and staying the night with my Sweet Mommy (96!), and sis and her black cat Licorice…I will survive….

  18. 18.

    Ian

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:
    I think the United States and Russia could accomplish alot, if they wanted to. The US and Russia were allies longer than they were enemies, but 1917 changed everything. Now Russian leaders get their support from being anti-US, whereas US leaders (or want to be leaders) get their kicks from being Pro-Putin.

  19. 19.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    HRC is borrowing Fvks to give from future generations that our grandchildren will have to pay back.
    She owes the press nothing for the way they have treated her. And probably rightly holds many of them in contempt.
    But there they are and they have to be dealt with.
    Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.

  21. 21.

    gene108

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Right-wingers are very envious of Putin. They wish one of their leaders could do what Putin does, with regards to jailing opposition, criminalizing homosexuality, and establish virtual one party rule.

    One thing that became crystal clear to me after 9/11/01 is that our right-wingers are basically fascists, but are too heavily constrained by our democratic traditions to seize power like Putin has.

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    Was just reading an anti-Trump yet foolish and pathetic op-ed by the leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly:

    A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explaining why I was so proud to be a Republican. As we watch the news today about the visit of the GOP Presidential nominee to Wisconsin, I have to ask myself, “am I proud of the GOP nominee lately?” The answer is so obvious it hurts. No. Actually, it’s even worse. I’m embarrassed that he’s leading our ticket.

    When I saw Donald Trump say kind words about Paul Nehlen’s longshot bid against my friend and Congressman Paul Ryan, I have to say I was incredibly disappointed. Frankly, I was heartbroken because it revealed a lack of judgement from our nominee that I just cannot look away from or forgive. He might be able to repair the damage, but it can’t be ignored.

    These morons were perfectly willing to countenance and even make excuses for Trump’s racist, sexist, xenophobic demagoguery from literally the day he announced his candidacy to the present. But Trump’s failure to suck up to Paul Ryan is “heartbreaking.”

    What a pack of craven jackasses. They must be rooted out at every level. The only worthwhile thing Trump will have accomplished in his 70-plus years of self-congratulatory histrionics is to show us exactly which assholes are the enemies of decency, common sense and good governance.

  24. 24.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    HRC is borrowing Fvks to give from future generations that our grandchildren will have to pay back.

    Typical Democrat, piling up debt that our grandchildren will have to pay back. Sad.

    @Betty Cracker: Since you had asked about the kid’s boards: she had the exam last Saturday, found out she passed on Tuesday and will start work this coming Monday.

  25. 25.

    Betty Cracker

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: That is wonderful! Congrats to her! Apparently the whole process is now computerized or something — I remember my mom, aunts and sister waiting weeks to find out if they passed!

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Betty Cracker: It’s an adaptive computer based exam now. Adaptive, meaning that if you know your shit you get fewer questions and can be done alot quicker. The kid said she took about 45 minutes to finish up.

  27. 27.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty Cracker:

    The only worthwhile thing Trump will have accomplished in his 70-plus years of self-congratulatory histrionics is to show us exactly which assholes are the enemies of decency, common sense and good governance.

    Not that we didn’t already know, it’s just that they can no longer deny it.

  28. 28.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    On a side note, I went on an adventure in public transportation yesterday; I went to the Getty Villa in Malibu. I took the train/subway/trolly to Santa Monica and the one of the nicest public buses I’ve ever been on from Santa Monica to Malibu. The Villa specializes in Greco-Roman art and is a beautiful destination in and of itself. I’ll have an album up in a few.

  30. 30.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: @raven: I had the chance to go there in high school but never went. They did alot of reconstruction there after the Getty in Brentwood opened in the late 90’s(it re-opened in 2006). The wife and a friend of ours have been intending to go for a couple of years, but the timing has never worked out. So I decided to go myself. They had a great exhibit of Roman murals.

  32. 32.

    MattF

    My favorite ‘the real quotation is better’ case is LBJ’s “can’t walk and chew gum at the same time”. What he actually said was “can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.”

  37. 37.

    NorthLeft12

    And the media wonders why they are considered to be worthless, cowardly, tools of the system. I would love to see their reaction to the twenty year video compilation of Hillary questions.
    My guess as to their response;
    1. “Hillary never answered the question.”
    2. Furiously write down questions from star “journalists” to be used at earliest opportunity.

    This also confirms my belief in why many people who would be great candidates, scrupulously avoid running for public office. The voters are dumb enough, but when the hyenas in the press prove to be dumber and meaner, it appears to be a job that is not worth having.

    “The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.” W.B. Yeats

  39. 39.

    satby

    @mdarst so oregon: condolences mdarst! It’s so hard, even when it’s their time. She had a good life and was well loved, and that’s all they want. You gave her the kitty dream life, I hope the memories bring you comfort.

  40. 40.

    D58826

    @piratedan:

    they wonder why Hillary doesn’t open up to them and trust them after nearly 30 years of the NYT vendetta against her and her family. It’s like they’re upset that they only got to hang an illicit bj on old Bill and feel cheated.

    I was going to say the same thing. Hillary discussed a number of policy issues yesterday and some of the reporters asked her questions about them. But she got the usual e-mail/don’t like you questions again. Most of the coverage on my twitter feed was on the subject of the e-mails and how it rescued Trump from his bad week.

    It’s not as if they couldn’t question NAFTA, Foreign policy missteps like Bosnia (if someone wanted to, at least) and I believe Mogadishu and Rwanda

    Rawanda happened on Bill’s watch and IIRC was a motivation to get involved in Bosnia to prevent a similar event from happening. Bush 41 sent the troops into Mogadishu but the only thing people remember is ‘blackhawk down’ which did happen on Bill’s watch.

  42. 42.

    Chip Daniels

    Its funny, because like John Cole, I am a conservative-turned liberal. And in my case, it was the Clintons that moved me toward the left.
    It was the Gingrich lynch mob that turned me off, and I had to admire the stoic dignity of the Clintons enduring what was an embarrassing shitshow of pettiness.

    I like the Clintons, both of them. I mean, not grudgingly or reluctantly, but I really admire them and will be proud to crawl over broken glass to vote for her.

  43. 43.

    shomi

    That NYTimes Op Ed from Morell is quite the endorsement. I am going to start posting that link on Politico and wherever else it will make Republican heads explode.

  45. 45.

    Persia

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that people’s noses would be out of joint that Hillary put killing Bin Laden ahead of a dog-and-pony show with cocktails, but you’d think they’d at least have the decency to not say it out loud.

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Big Blue Bus, the city of Santa Monica’s line? Damn, I miss those. There was one that went from my apartment straight to my office building at UCLA for $1 a day. Fucking amazing, and with really nice drivers, to boot.

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